Zane P. Bond was born February 3, 1951, the son of the late stage, screen, and TV actor, Rudy Bond, whose book "I Rode A Streetcar Named Desire", was just published
posthumously by Birch Brook Press, and of Alma H. Bond, PhD, noted Psychoanalyst. Growing up with an actor for a father, as you might expect, he tried his hand at acting in his youth, even appearing in some theatrical productions with Rudy Bond. But the theater was not for him, and he went on to other things.

He was a coin dealer and hobbyist, and wrote numerous articles on numismatics in newspapers and national trade journals. He was also an amateur art dealer and restorationist.

Zane founded the "Society of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." with the purpose of encouraging the federal government to honor the late Dr. King by placing him on the nickel, replacing Thomas Jefferson. ("Our noble President Jefferson owned slaves.")